Another morning in Paradise

25 May 2025: Hurricane Hill (1,100 feet), White River Junction, Vermont

4:43 a.m. (thirty-two minutes before sunrise). Robins are already singing; the predawn chorus kicks off the morning.

Forty-one degrees. Damp, dripping, and overcast, it's an inauspicious start to the day. Wind: Northwest five miles per hour, gusting to nineteen. Puddles everywhere. Eventually, a line of brighter light appears where the sun is supposed to…